[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 176 (Tuesday, November 15, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1148]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    HONORING PASTOR REGINALD BUCKLEY

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                        HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 15, 2022

  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor a 
tenacious and self-motivated leader, Pastor Reginald M. Buckley.
  Pastor Buckley was born in Jackson, MS, to the Rev. and Mrs. Horace 
L. Buckley. He is a product of Jackson Public Schools and completed his 
undergraduate education at Tougaloo College. A recipient of the Andrew 
W. Mellon fellowship, Pastor Buckley entered graduate school at the 
University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in 1994 and completed the 
Master of Arts Degree in English Literature in 1996.
  In 1998, he was called to serve as the senior pastor of Second 
Baptist Church of Danville, Illinois, and ministered there for nine 
years. During his tenure there, he served as Secretary and 2nd Vice 
Moderator of the Wood River Baptist District Association, the oldest 
continuous Baptist district association in the nation. Pastor Buckley 
accepted the call to return to Jackson, MS, and serve as the executive 
pastor of Cade Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in 2007. After serving 
for seven years, he assumed the role of Senior Pastor in January 2015. 
He has served as the Dean and the Executive Director of the Congress of 
Christian Education for the General Missionary Baptist State Convention 
of Mississippi and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the 
Mississippi Baptist Seminary.
  A W.K. Kellogg Fellow and a member of the inaugural class of the 
Mississippi Black Leadership Institute, Pastor Buckley is committed to 
the causes of community development, social justice, and equity. As 
executive director of the Cade Development Corporation, he helped to 
lead in the development of an 81-unit senior citizen apartment complex, 
which opened in 2012 in the Virden Addition community. Pastor Buckley 
has served on the board of directors for the Hinds County Economic 
Development Authority, the Mississippi Baptist Seminary and Bible 
College, and currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the Program 
for Research on Faith, Justice and Health at the University of Houston 
and the Board of Directors for the National Baptist Convention USA, 
Inc. Pastor Buckley has also been inducted into the Tougaloo College 
Hall of Fame, is a recipient of the Tougaloo Meritorious Leadership 
award, and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Pastor Buckley 
is married to Lecretia A. Buckley, Ph.D. and they are the parents of 
two children, Jonathan and Anna.
  Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing Pastor 
Reginald M. Buckley for his dedication and passion for his community 
and the State of Mississippi.

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